Cold Chisel - Letter To Alan - Live lyrics
Artist: Cold Chisel
album: The Live Tapes Vol 4: The Last Stand of the Sydney Entertainment Centre, December 17 and 18, 2015
When it's time for your reflection
As you wait till help arrives
You see our good friend's face on the dashboard
And you know you cannot leave that cab alive
Don't you know I reach for you, from later times
Once I knew
Once I knew
Now I'm walking
Now I'm walking in the dark (come on)
Like bells our dogs are yelling
All across Centennial Park
And the Sunday morning light just sends me blind
And I'm only feeling useless
'Cause there's noone I can blame
Every person, thing and circumstance
That moves this perfect day
You've left behind
♪
And I'm thinking
Christmas 1982 (come on)
Around this time a year ago
Gaskill sold his boat
And headed for the Cross to sink a few
Never trust a Wayside Chapel crowd
On Christmas Eve
They must be entertained
And if a stranger does the dying
Then that's O.K.!
♪
And I'm sitting in this hotel room
Along Rue St. Louis
Dialing old phone-numbers down the line
I measure my position
To the obstacles we crossed
The territory covered
And the parties that we lost
Those were the days
♪
And if I don't hang around
Our old gambling grounds
It does not mean that I've forgotten
We believed, and I still do
(One, two, three)
♪
Those were the days
As you wait till help arrives
You see our good friend's face on the dashboard
And you know you cannot leave that cab alive
Don't you know I reach for you, from later times
Once I knew
Once I knew
Now I'm walking
Now I'm walking in the dark (come on)
Like bells our dogs are yelling
All across Centennial Park
And the Sunday morning light just sends me blind
And I'm only feeling useless
'Cause there's noone I can blame
Every person, thing and circumstance
That moves this perfect day
You've left behind
♪
And I'm thinking
Christmas 1982 (come on)
Around this time a year ago
Gaskill sold his boat
And headed for the Cross to sink a few
Never trust a Wayside Chapel crowd
On Christmas Eve
They must be entertained
And if a stranger does the dying
Then that's O.K.!
♪
And I'm sitting in this hotel room
Along Rue St. Louis
Dialing old phone-numbers down the line
I measure my position
To the obstacles we crossed
The territory covered
And the parties that we lost
Those were the days
♪
And if I don't hang around
Our old gambling grounds
It does not mean that I've forgotten
We believed, and I still do
(One, two, three)
♪
Those were the days
Other albums by the artist
Blood Moon
2019 · album
I Hit The Wall
2019 · single
The Best Of Cold Chisel: All For You (Deluxe)
2018 · compilation
Khe Sanh
2017 · single
All Hell Broke Lucy
2017 · single
All For You
2017 · single
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